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Hyperbole User Manual

1.2 Mail Lists

If you maintain or use Hyperbole, you should consider joining one of the two Hyperbole interest mailing lists. See section 5. Menus, and the description of the the Msg/ menu item, for a convenient means of joining and mailing to these lists.

There are several Hyperbole-related mail addresses. Learn what each is for before you mail to any of them.

<hyperbole-request@hub.ucsb.edu> <hyperbole-announce-request@hub.ucsb.edu>

All mail concerning administration of the Hyperbole mailing lists should be sent to the appropriate one of these addresses. That includes addition, change, or deletion requests. Don't consider sending such a request to a Hyperbole mail list or people will wonder why you don't know that all Internet mail lists have a -request address for administrative requests. Use the following formats on your subject line to execute requests, where you substitute your own values for the <> delimited items. Subject: Subscribe '<' <user@domain> '>' (<your name>). Subject: Unsubscribe '<' <user@domain> '>'. To change your address, you must unsubscribe your old address in one message and then subscribe your new address in another message. For example: To: hyperbole-announce-request@hub.ucsb.edu Subject: Unsubscribe <joe@any.com>. To: hyperbole-announce-request@hub.ucsb.edu Subject: Subscribe <joe@any.com> (Joe Williams).

There are two Hyperbole-related mail lists. Subscribe to one or the other, not to both.

<hyperbole@hub.ucsb.edu>

Mail list for discussion of all Hyperbole issues. Bug reports and suggestions may also be sent here. Always use your Subject and/or Summary: lines to state the position that your message takes on the topic that it addresses. For example, send: Subject: Basic bug in top-level minibuffer menu. rather than: Subject: Hyperbole bug. Statements end with periods, questions with question marks (typically), and high energy, high impact declarations with exclamation points. This simple rule makes all e-mail communication much easier for recipients to handle appropriately. If you ask a question, your subject line should end with a ?, e.g. "Subject: How can man page SEE ALSOs be made implicit buttons?" A "Subject: Re: How can ..." then indicates an answer to the question. Question messages should normally include your Hyperbole and Emacs version numbers and clearly explain your problem and surrounding issues. Otherwise, you will simply waste the time of those who may want to help you. (Your top-level Hyperbole menu shows its version number and {M-x emacs-version RET} gives the other.) If you ask questions, you should consider adding to the discussion by telling people the kinds of work you are doing or contemplating doing with Hyperbole. In this way, the list will not be overwhelmed by messages that ask for, but provide no information.

<hyperbole-announce@hub.ucsb.edu>

Those who don't want to participate in the discussion but want to hear about bug fixes and new releases of Hyperbole should subscribe to this list. Anyone on the `hyperbole' list is automatically on this one too, so there is no need to subscribe to this one in that case. This list is for official fixes and announcements so don't send your own fixes here. Send them to `hyperbole' instead.